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DATAx returned this week for its latest
installment in the tech hub of San Francisco. The event attracted hundreds of
data, machine learning and AI experts from the Bay Area and beyond, who shared
and discussed the latest trends and developments from across the global tech
industry.

The measure will be officially passed into
city law next week, following a second vote. The first vote on the ban was
passed by San Francisco's supervisors 8-1, with two absentees.

"This is really about saying 'we can have
security without being a security state'," remarked jubilant city supervisor
Aaron Peskin. "We can have good policing without being a police state – and
part of that is building trust with the community based on good community
information, not on Big Brother technology."

Speaking on the AI in Healthcare stage at DATAx San Francisco, Google
research scientist Kathryn Rough said: "Electronic health record (EHR)
data has its limitations and more data does not necessarily help."

"Some brands use big data to mine through
customer feedback received on social media channels or through a company's
customer service email address. For example, a flurry of comments from people
who became ill after eating a particular kind of peanut butter might trigger a
data analysis tool to recommend brand representatives investigate the
complaints more thoroughly."

Tencent Holdings share price fell recently,
thanks primarily to the ongoing trade war between China and the US, with the
news that its music streaming service has been performing well bringing some
welcome relief to the company's leadership.

Li Chengdong, a Beijing-based tech analyst,
remarked that as Chinese consumers become more used to paying models, TME
represented the largest company within the wider Tencent business that offered
"very positive" long-term prospects.

Asset managers, much like the rest of us,
would love to avoid extinction. That sentiment led
Nick Ayton, an Innovation Enterprise contributor,
digital disruptor and BOOMer, to write about how and why asset managers are
being disintermediated at an alarming rate.

"While it has been no Hollywood
blockbuster, the sands have indeed shifted under [the asset management]
industry," Ayton wrote.

"Many old guards and industry stalwarts believe
to this day they are protected from new entrants by a mix of regulatory
protection and scale," he noted. "
Believing themselves to be too big to fail, being the 600lbs dominant gorilla in the
room, they fail to realize these metrics are now meaningless and underestimate
the threat of digital revolution."

Facebook, it would seem, is always in the news
for one thing or another – more often than not, for failing to act on data
privacy. This week, however, the shoe was somewhat on the other foot as the
company announced its intention
to sue South Korean social media analytics firm Rankwave
for breaking Facebook's rules… on data privacy.

Rankware, which analyzes social media users'
data for marketing purposes, has been accused by Facebook of failing to cooperate with the social media
giant's efforts to verify it compliance with its policies, which Facebook
director of platform enforcement and litigation Jessica Romero said was required
of all developers using its platform.

Facebook, now a
purveyor of social good, has since suspended apps and accounts tied to Rankwave,
but yet to specify what type or how much user data Rankwave has gathered.